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WILLiAn won'rn Bonson, or onIoAco, ILLINOIS.

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SPECIFICATION 'forming' pari: of Letters Patent No. 715,457, dated December 9A, 1.902..

Application led June 6, 1896. Serial No. 594.485. (Specimens.) f

To a/ZZ whom, may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM W onrH BUnsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the -county of Cook and State of Illinois,`have invented certain new and useful Improvements in TnbnlarKnit Goods, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings. y

This invention will be described first with reference to the accompanying drawings, after which Vits distinguishing characteristics will be more particularly pointed ont and dis-l tinctly defined in the claims at the close of this specification.

^ 'Figure l of the drawings shows a knit stocking.4 Fig. 2 shows a doubled yarn coinpcsed of right-hand twist and left-hand twist single yarns, as described hereinafter, pro-l duced by donblingand twisting. Fig.' 3 .is a View showing how -the component yarns may be combined on a knitting-machine. Figse and 5 are diagrams on an enlarged scale, showing portions of knit fabrics embodying my invention.

ln the manufacture of tubular hnitgoods considerable trouble is experienced from the Vtendency of the vertical rows or lines of stitches, instead of lying in straight lines lengthwise of the goods, to assume an inclined or oblique direction spirally around This tendency of the fabric to twist is especially objectionable in the case ofstockings and the like which have been knit upon straight-knitting machines having oppositeandpara-llel rows of needles; Such fabrics are composed of two halves, .united along lines alt-'the opposite edges thereof and frequently are widened or narrowed along one of such lines of union. `The tendency to twist aforesaid causes these lines of union aforesaid to assume a spiral direction in the fabric.

The object of my invention is to produce knit goods, such as stockings and other articles of apparel, which shall b'e free from the* objection aforesaid.

' In accordance with vmy invention I employ in 4the knitting-of goods a doubled yarn com;

posed of a single yarn of right-hand twist and vmade therefrom, a row of meshes made from nv single yarn 'o left-hand twistfcombined with each other. The saidsingle yarns may be separately-wound' upon' cones or bobbins,

vtiorns thronghoht the fabric.

as represented in Fig. 3, and united asv they v are led to the knitting-machine, in which they are knit together into the desired fabric.

When" thus drawnl od their respective bob-` bins and passed together through the yarngnides of the knittingmachine, the yarns will twist together slightly in consequence of the action of the' machine asthe doubled 6o length of yarn 'knit in one round is so great 65 that this single turn will not be apparent, and consequently the yarns will lie substantially parallel with'each other, as meant to be indicated in Fig. 4.-. If desired, the yarns may first be doubled and twisted and wound 7onpon 'cones or bobbins before being taken to the knitting machine. The 4doubled and twisted yarn is represented in Fig. 2. The abric knit therefrom is represented in Fig. 5..

By the use of adonbled yarn such as herein shown'and described a tubular fabric may be produced which will lie straight and datwise and without twist no matter how hard the twist` of the single yarns may be, thus v permitting the 'use of harder-twisted yarns 8o than heretofore' employed. The lines along which the opposite halves or portions of the l fabric are joined or. knit together will lie naturally atthe sides or edges ofthe dattened tube, and the line of widenings or narrowings will remain in its proper placealong one of the sides or edges.

I claim as my inyention-fl. Tubnlarknit goods knit of doubled yarn composed of component yarns having respec- 9o tivelya right-hand twist and a left-hand twist, substantially as described. f

. 2. In knitted or netted fabrics, meshes or loops made from yarnswor threads twisted in mutually opposite directions throughout the l fabric. 1

3. In knitted ornetted fabrics, rows of meshes or loops made from yarns or threads strongly twisted in mutuallyopposite direc- 4. In a knittedornettedfabric or garment a 'multiple yarn vonthreacl, chef01-"more com .ponen't yarns' of whichfare twisted in one di- IOO reetion and one or more in an opposite direction.

5. In a knitted or netted fabric or garment made therefrom, a series of rows or meshes each made from a multiple yarn or thread, one or more component yarns of which are twisted in one direction and -one or more in the opposite direction.

In knitted or netted fabrics,ineshes made from a neutral multiple thread having coinponent yarns or threads individually twisted in opposite directions, all the componentl yarns Abeing moreover twisted together into a united yarn.

7. In knitted or netted fabrics, meshes made from a multiple yarn or thread Consisting of two yarns or sets of yarns individually twist- VILLIAM WORTH BURSON.

Witnesses:

CHAS. F. RANDALL, ALICE H. MORRISON. 

